Hard Brexit, Dark Money: Links between these secretive campaigns raise new questions for Facebook about political ads

A few weeks ago we reported that Facebook’s political transparency measures were under scrutiny after Britain’s Future, a shadowy pro-Brexit group, became the biggest-spending political advertiser on the platform, all the while its funding source remains a mystery.

The campaign has spent nearly £50,000 on ads promoting a clean break from the EU, which puts it at seventh on the list of top political advertisers on Facebook in the UK, since the company began publishing spending data. That’s higher than the Labour Party.

Experts estimate its ads have been viewed up to 10 million times.

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